On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:52:44AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > [UPGRADE] grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 -> 1.99~rc1-13 > > When upgrading, aptitude gets stuck with: > > Setting up grub-pc (1.99~rc1-13) ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ... > Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version > > $ pstree -alp 6275 > grub-pc.postins,6275 /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst configure > 1.98+20100804-14 > ââgrep,6277 -v ^(fd[0-9]\\+) > ââgrub-mkdevicema,6276 -m - > > $ ps l 6275 6277 6276 > F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND > 1 0 6275 6180 20 0 10884 752 wait S+ pts/5 0:00 > /bin/bash /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst configure 1.98+20100804-14 > 0 0 6276 6275 20 0 18288 928 blkdev D+ pts/5 0:00 > grub-mkdevicemap -m - > 0 0 6277 6275 20 0 7592 572 pipe_w S+ pts/5 0:00 grep -v > ^(fd[0-9]\+) > > $ ps -o pid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o comm 6276 > PID WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN COMMAND > 6276 blkdev_get grub-mkdevicema > > > Nothing suspect from dmesg - any idea how to quickly get more precise > info ? Not sure I can get out of this to retry except by rebooting, > which would be quite a shame...
It may be difficult retrospectively. Can you attach strace to find out what system call it's stuck in, and attach gdb (you may need to build grub2 locally for symbols) to get a backtrace? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
